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GM Staging Ground; In which Xigo makes his big thought posts about how things will work.
Topic Started: Nov 3 2016, 12:30 AM (32 Views)
Xigo
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So here's the short and skinny of what I want to do.

The forum format gives me tools I normally don't have access to. What this means is that ya'll are fully capable of doing side jobs that run concurrent with the main story, without detracting from one another's play time. This means that a Bounty Hunter could be pursuing a bounty while everything else is going on, and everyone would be able to read that side content, but it wouldn't be 'ok guys let's alt tab while chuckles frisks up a hutt'.

I sort of want to create a 'job board' of sorts, something that PCs could do in order to gain extra experience points and resources. The only catch is that PCs would be basically incapable of dying during these, otherwise it would mess with everything. So I'm putting a decent amount of trust in you guys when we go about doing that sort of thing.

Essentially, here's the format I'll be doing.

-There will be the main thread, which all 'main characters' will be participating in.
-There will be side threads, which those interested in that storyline may participate in.

Characters may, of course, make 'cameos' in the side missions of the other player characters. So if you need a doctor for something, you can bark up Roslynn's tree, and she can show up for a post or two, but she's not really supposed to steal the spotlight from the 'stars' of the episode. Ya dig?

Also, here's a cool note that mostly applies to Zhaei. The forum format actually lets us use multiple characters. So it is totally possible to have a technician who mostly stays on the ship, and a 'face' who runs about with the group. The only catch I'm putting for those of you who opt to have multiple characters, is that when it comes to threads, you pick one or the other to be the main character. This is mostly just to avoid incestuous 'My two characters will have an entire conversation with one another'. I'm not inherently opposed to someone playing a 'thread' with multiple characters, I just want us to adjust to the PbP format before we start doing weird stuff like that.

Questions, concerns, comments, complaints?
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